Year Recipient Award/Honors
2024 Qian Yang 2024 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Yuqiang Ding 2024 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Yuqiang Ding JSID’s Outstanding Student Paper of the Year Award
Zhenyi Luo First Place of SPIE Photonics West AR/VR/MR Optical Design Challenge
Zhenyi Luo ILCS-FRL Diamond award
2023 Yizhou Qian SID Metro Detroit Academic Award
Enlin Hsiang 2023 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Zhenyi Luo 2023 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Yizhou Qian 2023 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Yuqiang Ding 2023 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Yannanqi Li 2023 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Qian Yang SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship
Yannanqi Li Second Place of SPIE Photonics West AR/VR/MR Optical Design Challenge
2022 Kun Yin JSID’s Outstanding Student Paper of the Year Award
Junyu Zou 2022 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Kun Yin 2022 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Qian Yang 2022 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Enlin Hsiang SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship
Yannanqi Li ILCS-FRL Gold Award
2021 Jianghao Xiong JSID Best Paper Award
Enlin Hsiang 2021 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Zhiyong Yang 2021 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Jianghao Xiong 2021 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Ziqian He 2021 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Kun Yin 2021 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Jianghao Xiong ILCS-FRL Diamond award
Kun Yin ILCS-FRL Platinum award
2020 Ziqian He IEEE Orlando Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship
Junyu Zou 2020 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Kun Yin 2020 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Jianghao Xiong 2020 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Ziqian He 2020 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Tao Zhan First Place of SPIE Photonics West AR/VR/MR Optical Design Challenge
Tao Zhan IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Scholarship
Tao Zhan Facebook Reality Labs Liquid Crystal research awards (Platinum)
Tao Zhan SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship
Tao Zhan JSID Distinguished Student Paper of the year
Tao Zhan IEEE Orlando Outstanding Graduate Student Award & Scholarship
2019 Fangwang Gou 2019 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship
Fangwang Gou 2019 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Kun Yin 2019 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Prof. Yi-Pai Huang SID Fellow Award
Yun-Han Lee, Guanjun Tan JSID’s Outstanding Student Paper of the Year Award
Guanjun Tan First Place of SPIE Photonics West AR/VR/MR Optical Design Challenge
Guanjun Tan UCF Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Tao Zhan 2019 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Tao Zhan Best Paper Award in International Display Workshop
2018 Guanjun Tan, Juan He IEEE Orlando Chapter Graduate Student Scholarship Award
Yuge Huang SID Metro Detroit Academic Award
Haiwei Chen 2018 ILCS Glenn Brown Prize
Hao Chen, Juan He JSID’s Outstanding Student Paper of the Year Award
Guanjun Tan 2018 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship
Juan He 2018 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship
Guanjun Tan 2018 SLCP Best Paper Award
Guanjun Tan 2018 ICDT Best Student Paper Award
Prof. Qionghua Wang SID Fellow Award
Juan He 2018 CREOL Industrial Affiliates Program Best Poster Award
Juan He 2018 DOE Solid State Lighting R&D Workshop Best Student Poster Award
2017 Haiwei Chen 2017 IEEE graduate student fellowship award
Haiwei Chen 2017 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship
Prof. Yi-Pai Huang 2017 SID Peter Brody Prize
Ruidong Zhu JSID’s Outstanding student paper of the year award
Fenglin Peng Chinese Government Scholarship for Outstanding Oversea Students
2016 Fenglin Peng 2016 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship
Ruidong Zhu 2016 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship
Prof. Seung Hee Lee 2016 SID Jan Rajchman Prize
Prof. Yanqing Lu 2016 OSA Fellow Award
Zhibing Ge 2016 SID Display of the Year Award
Vicky Wen 2016 SID Display Application of the Year Award
Fenglin Peng 2016 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Ruidong Zhu 2016 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Haiwei Chen 2016 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Juan He 2016 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Daming Xu Chinese Government Scholarship for Outstanding Oversea Students
Daming Xu UCF Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship
2015 Daming Xu 2015 IEEE Orlando Chapter Graduate Student Award
Daming Xu SPIE D. J. Lovell Scholarship; the largest and most prestigious society’s scholarship
Yating Gao 2015 SID distinguished poster paper award
Haiwei Chen 2015 SID distinguished student paper award
Zhenyue Luo 2015 SID distinguished student paper award
Fenglin Peng SPIE Newport Travel Grants
Daming Xu SPIE Newport Travel Grants
2014 Sihui He 2014 IEEE Orlando Chapter Graduate Student Scholarship
Zhenyue Luo 2014 IEEE Orlando Chapter Graduate Student Scholarship
Prof. Shin-Tson Wu First six Inductees of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame
Sihui He 2014 SPIE Educational Scholarship
Zhenyue Luo 2014 SPIE Educational Scholarship
Zhenyue Luo UCF Graduate Research Excellence Fellowship
Dr. Linghui Rao ILCS (Int’l Liquid Crystal Society) Glenn Brown Prize
Yuan Chen 2014 SID distinguished paper awards
Daming Xu 2014 SID distinguished paper awards
Zhenyue Luo 2014 SID distinguished paper awards
Prof. Shin-Tson Wu 2014 OSA Esther Hoffman Beller Medal
Yuan Chen Chinese Government Scholarship for Outstanding Oversea Students
2013 Dr. Martin Schadt National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
Yifan Liu 2013 IEEE Orlando Chapter Graduate Student Award
Yuan Chen 2013 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship Award
Yuan Chen UCF Graduate Research Excellence Fellowship
Yuan Chen 2013 SPIE Educational Scholarship
Dr. Martin Schadt Honorary Professorship by Nanjing University
Prof. Shin-Tson Wu Honorary Professorship by Nanjing University
Yuan Chen 2013 SID distinguished student paper award
Daming Xu 2013 SID distinguished student paper award
Jie Sun 2013 SID distinguished poster paper awards
Jin Yan Chinese Government Scholarship for Outstanding Oversea Students
2012 Prof. Shin-Tson Wu National Academy of Inventors: Charter Fellow
HY Kim, SH Lee, SL Lee 2012 SID Special Recognition Award
Jie Sun 2012 IEEE Orlando Chapter Graduate Student Award and Scholarship
Prof. Shin-Tson Wu 2012 OSA Outstanding Reviewer Award
Jin Yan 2012 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship Award
Hui-Chuan Cheng 2012 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Jin Yan 2012 SPIE Educational Scholarship
2011 Yan Li 2011 IEEE Orlando Chapter Scholarship
Linghui Rao 2011 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship
Tracy Su Xu 2011 SPIE Educational Scholarship
Prof. Shin-Tson Wu 2011 SID Slottow-Owaki Prize
Prof. Takahiro Ishinabe 2011 SID Special Recognition Award
Yan Li 2011 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Hui-Chuan Cheng 2011 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
2010 Linghui Rao 2010 SID Distinguished Student Paper Award
Linghui Rao 2010 SPIE Educational Scholarship
Prof. Shin-Tson Wu 2010 OSA Joseph Fraunhofer Award / Robert M� Burley Prize
2009 Meizi Jiao 2009 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship
Dr. Ying Zhou 2009 Otto Lehmann Award
Yan Li 2009 SPIE Educational Scholarship
2008 Yan Li and Meizi Jiao 2008 JSID Best Student Paper Award
Dr. Zhibing Ge 2008 Otto Lehmann Award
Dr. Yi-Hsin Lin 2008 ILCS Glenn Brown Prize
Prof. Shin-Tson Wu 2008 SPIE G. G. Stokes Award
Prof. Shin-Tson Wu 2008 SID Jan Rajchman Award
Prof. Seung Hee Lee SID Fellow
2007 Ying Zhou 2007 SPIE Educational Awards
Xiangyi Nie 2007 SPIE Educational Awards
Zhibing Ge 2007 SPIE Educational Awards
Ying Zhou 2007 OSA New Focus/Bookham Award
Ying Zhou 2007 CREOL Student of The Year Award
Zhibing Ge 2006 Chinese Government Scholarship for Outstanding Oversea Students
Zhibing Ge Who’s Who Among UCF Students Award
Prof. Yanqing Lu 2006 First Class China Awards for Science & Technology
2006 Claire Fan 2006 Optical Physics Company Michelson Technology Award
Prof. Kit Choi 2006 IDW Outstanding Poster Paper Award
Yung-Hsun Wu 2006 IEEE (Orlando Section) Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Zhibing Ge 2006 IEEE Graduate Student Fellowship Award
Amy Jang 2006 REU Students Best Poster Paper Award
Yi-Hsin Lin OSA New Focus/Bookham Graduate Student Award
Yi-Hsin Lin Who’s Who Among UCF Students Award
2005 Bounds Huang Acer Dragon Award in Taiwan
Yi-Hsin Lin SPIE Educational Scholarship in optical science and engineering
Yi-Hsin Lin 2005 Newport Research Excellence Awards
Vicky Wen 2005 Newport Research Excellence Awards
2004 Claire Fan SPIE Educational Scholarship in optical science and engineering
Claire Fan IEEE Orlando Section Outstanding Graduate Student Award